Sometimes it simply takes time for a band to gel, and that’s the other reason the consistent lineup on Pelagial is so noteworthy. They weren’t bad by any means - sub-par The Ocean smokes 99% of what all other bands are doing - but fans expected Precambrian II, or at least the next logical evolution, and instead got what felt like a slight regression. That’s noteworthy because the two albums released in the interim, the concept series Heliocentric and Anthropocentric, felt like a bit of a letdown after Precambrian. The band’s first two albums, Fluxion and Aeolian (released in 20, respectively), turned a few heads, but it wasn’t until the expansive, double-disc affair Precambrian, which dropped in 2007, that folks in the progressive and post-metal communities the world over started to take notice of the impressive output this rotating collective of German metal musicians were creating.įast forward six years, and the recording sessions for Pelagial saw the band’s core group - mastermind/guitarist Robin Staps, drummer Luc Hess, guitarist Jonathan Nido, vocalist Loic Rossetti and bassist Louis Jucker - reunite for the third album in a row. The Ocean’s career trajectory has been anything but standard.
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